Alan Scott

Thank you very much esmi. ??

Thank you for your response esmi.

If I may ask for your opinion only, would my best course of action be upgrading from:

3.1 > 3.3 > 3.5 > 3.5.2 ?

I appreciate your time.

Thank you very much for your assistance. I hope this can help others.

Sorry? I don’t follow you. You need to re-upload a complete copy of WordPress 3.1. You cannot run a 3.1 database with 3.5.2 core scripts.

I am learning that the hard way.

So the only way to upgrade WordPress is with the older version in place?

I understand that other posts in support deal with specific circumstances, however I went by the following from this post:

The “wp-config.php” file will be located in the root folder of your WP installation. Open it in a code editor, and verify the database login details match those of your new account.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/restoring-my-blog-after-database-upgrade?replies=4

Yes.

I went ahead and linked the old database with the new site, modifying wp-config.

That worked.

Then I conducted a reverse upload of the old files. Instead of replacing the old files on the host server with new ones in WordPress 3.5.2, I only uploaded the old files and kept the new ones.

To do that, I uploaded the old files using Filezilla into the host server (except for the files that need to be new, like wp-includes and
wp-admin as outlined in https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Updating_WordPress.)

I then went back into the site, and noticed the pages are all there, but they do not work correctly.

I think the moral of the story is to just automatically upgrade WordPress, instead of creating a new folder and database and migrating the old ones.

No.

To give some more background, the site is a development area so is not overly critical.

Thank you 2ninernier2, I uploaded the WordPress 3.5.2 WP ZIP file and extracted (unarchive) it to the host’s server.

Thank you essaysnark for responding back to my query.

I am currently in correpondance with our web host, and have notified them of the possible root cause that you have outlined above.

I will post how this issues is resolved when it occurs.